Illusion apparatus.



No. 863,407. FATENTED AUG. 13, 1907.

. J. R. LANCASTER.

ILLUSION APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED OUT 1906.

2 $HEETS-SHEET l.

No. 863,407. PATENTBD AUG. 13, 1907.

J. R. LANCASTER.

ZSHEETS-SHEET 2v WITNESSES: INVENTOR 2; ORNEY JOSEPH. R. LANCASTER, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

ELLE S101)? APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters fi ment.

Application filed October 1,1905. Eerlal lie. 3535,8275.

T allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, .losnrn R. L.-\ NCA$TER, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the eonnty of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented eertain new amt uset'ul lmprm'ements in Illusion Apparat us; and I do hereby declare the following to be a tall, elear, and exaet deseription of the invention, such as will enahle others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the aeeompanying drawings, and to letters of referenee marked thereon, whieh torn apart of this specification.

This strueture is designed to make up a deviee that will furnish amusement, and at the same time be interesting amt will develop a better contro of the muscles of the hand.

The invention is primarily designed to furnish a strueture that will hold a mirror or a. retleeting surtaee at an angle and considerably removed t'rom a pad on 'hlt'll the drawing is to he made, and at the same time it eoneeals the hand amt the pad from the view of the person drawing so that when the mirror is looked into, .hegaze is widely divergent from the hand. i

It is a well known taet' that a person looking toward I the hand, even though the hand ("an not be seen, (an manipulate the hand to do eertain things mun-h easier amt with hetter eontrol than when the gaze is diverted in another direetion, and this is utilized, in the present strut-t ure, to make the drawing more uneertain.

'lheinventiou is designed to provide a taldet to hold a eop v, it one is net-essar n'hieh has upon it the design to he tlran'n ivy the operator, and this ltu'atinn oi the tablet does not neeessitale very mueh ot a ehange ot the line of vision glam-in from the design to the mirror, or vu'e vet'sa.

.) The strm-ture is made up so that the t'ost of mauutaeture will he verv small, and employs ver v tew parts,

these parts heing adapted to fold togethento form a eompaet deviee tor transportation orstorage.

The invention is illustrated in the aeeompanying 4t) "drawings, in whit'h Figure l is a front view of the deviee, and Fig. 2 is a seetiou on line 2, 2, in l ig. t. Fig. 3 is a seetion of one end of the lflitly portion with the mirror removed, and Fig. 4 is a detail ot' one end of the leaf that supports the mirror. Figs. 5 aml 6 are plans of lilanks ot' the two parts that go to make up the invent ion.

The deviee eonsists ot' a. body portion which comprises a shield or sereeu 10, which is made in one piece and mounted on the side walls ll, the body portion beiing-seored at 12 to provide tor the folding of the parts. The side walls ll support the structure, and are cut i1w ay at 13 to provide for the admission of sutficient alight underneath the screen 10. Projecting up beyond ,the screen 10 are the wings 14, one on either side and they are slotted as at 15. The Bhiutd or screen 10 does 1S, and these noses are arm not extend up onto open space transversely.

Situated between the which is provided with th.

this mirror being long enough to just. s the Wings 14, when the member 1 ror being thus held against any movement, venting the wings 14 from colla is scored at 2!, and has the [tag Z2 eat on. the tablet 2. is swung back on the scored 1 r Fig. 2, the flap 22 forms a suppe sheet 24, when such a sneet is util .aetl, adapted tohave upon it e. :i ahle pad 25, midermsath the only on: T ratus.

Fig. 5 shows the bin! out, and when. it is Pt. ie two 5 over on the part iii, and the member Eli, Fig. (3, van he laid. with its mirror. on the hot;

and a eompaet arrangeimxnt is hen the apparatus is used, t amt the operator uses a. peneil or i -itll meat on the pad, but the pad and the I eoneealed rom viout, and the lLtT. on oi u... to; \Vlllt'll reverses the figures on the pad, make: the 0110" ator look in a direetion away .(rom the hand, which makes the movement of the hand all the more: uncertain. When a particular design, on the sheer to he eopied, the operator need only giant-e n he sheet to the mirror, \vhieh is a very sh -t dist and the operator ean see what he is at tempting to do, as. it. posaihle to gaze on the hand or the pent-it, and it is ex tremely hard, in. this appzr-ttus, to make a. predeter mined design on account of nmtions in all directions iii;- heing reversed on the pad '2) on what is View to the operator in the mirror. I

The holding means for the mirror is also very eompaet and simple, and embodies a d is seenre by reason oi the ta 1 9 top edge of the wings 14, as in Big.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1: Au llluston apparatus emngirtstng; a. hefty portion forming a semen and having projecting aide pieces, and a ,t (}t mirror suspended between the stile pier-e2 atzzi betray; fitted out of a vertical position.

2. An illusion apparatus comm but]? portion forming a screen, a mirror auspeudeu .ieyond the screen and tilted out of o vertical 3t and a mug holder above the mirror.

51, An illusion apparatus rumprising :qmnen formed of n to nml supporting: slrllpit-nus. the side pieces having pt'ujm'lilmf; extending therefrom. :1 mirror suspended ill-,1! iiiitti position irii'fl'lt'ii the side pieces, and a (wry holder :iimvtthe mirror.

i. ,m illusion :mpzn'uluh having :1 body portion ("OllSlHfing oi side nit-run, :1 screen across the top. and wings Inn iiu side pit'res. iii! whngri being provided with slots, a Set. nml lm-lnirt i' having mines in paws throughihe slots of the wings and hunk n the edges of the shit; the serum] mvmlmr iitlt'iil; lint: to emhr-u-e n mirror at the top and imiium. :1 tablet lntegrnl with the second nnwnher and url'tlllilt'ti at an angle. lili'ltlltj, to hn ipurt :1 siren and a thin in vxtnn lun with the hotly portion of the hem. gi melnhel' in slllrtluli the hoimm m the mhect.

An illtwihn :mgmrnlns connn-ising :1 hndy POUCH" eontiny; uf n m tten lnivgi nl with two depending side plmes, i

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the ,nide pieces; having nrojeeiing wings. the-f r'r ij ecting wings heing provided with sluts, n Setnfld member having n pair of slots i'urmingnoses on its opposed ends, the nose being arranged to enter the slots on the wings and hook over the edges of the slots. :l-mirror having its end bearing on the wings. tiups in'tho second member to grasp the mill-roion the top and bottom, and a tablet integral .with

the body portion of the seeond member arranged to' support a sheet, the body portion of the second member having 

